Members of The Well Project's Community Advisory Board attended, presented, and reported their perspectives on the virtual US Conference on HIV/AIDS, December 2 - 3, 2021. Read on for summaries of presentations dealing with COVID-19 pandemic-related changes to HIV care and service delivery.
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Members of The Well Project's Community Advisory Board attended, presented, and reported their perspectives on the virtual US Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA), December 2 - 3, 2021. Read on for summaries of presentations related to the state of the US HIV epidemic.
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Members of The Well Project's Community Advisory Board attended, presented, and reported their perspectives on the virtual US Conference on HIV/AIDS, December 2 - 3, 2021. Read on for summaries of presentations related to quality of life for women and other people living with HIV.
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I think in the past month I've at least touched base with all five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, but I feel like it's only been a preview of going through those stages again
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"Serodifferent relationship" and "mixed-status couple" are terms often used to describe a couple or relationship in which one partner is living with HIV and the other is not.
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The Women's Research Initiative on HIV/AIDS (WRI), a program of The Well Project, convened Fall WRI Virtual 2021: Research at the Intersection of HIV and Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health: Best Practices, Gaps, and Barriers on October 7-8, 2021. The meeting sought to comprehensively examine the intersection of HIV and women's sexual and reproductive health, a relatively underexplored area of HIV research.
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Are you stupid? Or are you dumb? What in the hell would possess you to breastfeed a new, precious, innocent life? Do you hate her or something?
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Para leer este blog en español, presione aquí. "I'm scared" I've lost count of the number of times I've heard that blunt phrase from people that I tell that I'm a seropositive woman. Hidden behind that phrase are cultural, social, collective issues...
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"Tengo miedo" Ya perdí la cuenta de las veces que he escuchado esa frase contundente por parte de personas a las que les comparto que soy mujer seropositiva.
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If you can read this, or let someone read it to you, and you are sexually active – and you don't know your status or the status of your partner(s), you are at risk for HIV. Yes, YOU TOO! Woman, man, nonbinary, trans-experience – aged 15 or 75. Doesn...
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This month I had the opportunity to participate in the 'Stories from HIV Long-Term Thrivers' forum where I gave a spoken word performance alongside an amazing and inspiring panel. The forum was organized by ViiV healthcare. How did I give this spoken...
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People living with HIV can hold negative beliefs about HIV that cause them to stigmatize themselves (also known as internalized stigma). For many women living with HIV, the negative stories we tell ourselves have more consequences than the stigma we...
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As we enter into 2022, we are excited to share the 10 most viewed A Girl Like Me blogs of 2021. If you missed them the first time around, take some time to check them out now for the inspiration you can always count on from our community of bloggers!
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The Well Project is honored to be spotlighted by longtime partner Positive Women's Women's Network - USA. Read Ieshia Scott's interview with executive director, Krista Martel.